Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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There have been reports that she plans to defend herself by cloaking herself in Mao's mantle, saying that she did only what he approved. As the trial got under way, Jiang Qing dismissed her assigned team, deciding instead to represent herself...
...brothers and sisters of Hostage James Lopez of Globe, but with no strings attached. Keough has accepted a flight to Wiesbaden from Boston's NBC affiliate, WBZ-TV. The Boston Globe blasted that as "checkbook journalism." Keough fought back by temporarily refusing to talk to the Globe, cooperating instead with the rival Herald American...
...back of the bullet, creating a cloud of electrically charged particles, or plasma. Simultaneously, it generates a strong magnetic field between the rails, like those in an electric motor. The field exerts a force against the plasma, just as it would against a motor's rotor. But instead of spinning, the plasma moves forward, guided by the rails and pushing the projectile ahead of it. Not constrained by any sonic limitation, the plasma could, theoretically at least, approach the speed of light...
...spending reductions, the President-elect has been equally emphatic on the need to boost defense outlays at the same time. In the process, the deficit for the 1981 fiscal year that began in October could all too easily wind up swelling to $55 billion or even $60 billion instead of the $50 billion that is now projected, or the $27 billion that Rea gan is shooting for. Says Fiscal Expert Joseph Pechman of the liberal Brookings Institution in Washington: "The Reagan people are not in power yet, but they should understand that the budget has real effects on the economy...
...even more elusive. In January of 1973, the Dow rose to an alltime high of 1,051, shortly thereafter to tumble 500 points into Wall Street's worst bear market since the 1930s. Now, many of the investors who took a beating in the 1970s are selling out, instead of buying, as the market moves back...